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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Trouble with window size for Non-Windows apps.
Message-ID: <4811@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 90 15:38:15 GMT
References: <653258385@globe01.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: jls@headland.UUCP (James Seidman)
Organization: Video Seven / Headland Technology
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In article <653258385@globe01.cs.duke.edu> mds@duke.cs.duke.edu (Mark David Shattuck) writes:
>	I would like to be able to set the size of a DOS
>window in win3 enhanced mode.  I want a 132x44 characters
>window.  Can this be done??

Nope, 'fraid not.  There is only support for "standard" text modes, i.e.
those which can be done on true-blue IBM video cards.  That means 80x25,
80x43, and 80x50 (and some 40-column modes).  I've gotten some other
extended 80 column modes, like 80x60 to work, but it's unreliable (random
cases of areas of the screen getting cleared, the cursor winding up in
the wrong place, etc.).

The problem is that the screen display is handled by Windows' Virtual
Display Driver (VDD) which isn't set up for proprietary extensions.
Unless your VGA manufacturer has rewritten it (which I *strongly* doubt)
then you're out of luck.
-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
"There's a certain freedom to being completely screwed." - The Freshman
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